fins2right We dont have any red flashing lights anywhere in the aquarium, so I am guessing that it is the tv carera. I have noticed that a lot of digital cameras are putting out the infra red light to judge how far way she is. Great little addition to cameras when flash is not allowed. The red light doesnt seem to bother her at all. I dont know if its because she cant see it, or if it is because it is not bright enough to bother her. BTW we are now on day 21.
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toccata
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Just a article posted from time.com
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041011-709055,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041011-709055,00.html
Good article, but I hate how every report that I have heard from Time, to The Fresno Bee, to Good Morning America, all of them fail to say anything about how we were actually doing research on them. When you read the stories, they also fail to say that this is the thrid GWS we has this summer. They make it seem like we pulled her in spur of the molment. Oh well, what are ya gonna do?
maxxII
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I'm glad to see that MBA's GWS is doing well. kinda reading between the lines, seems like she is being less finicky about what she eats. Maybe you guys are just feeding her a larger variety...I dunno.
Evidently New England was able to coax their GWS back to the ocean. Amazingly enough it was done w/ old time fishing methods, and a few high pressure hoses??????
http://www.capecodchronicle.com/chat100704_1.htm
http://newscenter.mind.net/wed/cf/Uus-whiteshark.RQEI_EO5.html
I found other articles about the shark getting back to the ocean, most were re-hash....
Oddly enough, the only mention of the high pressure water streams was in the first link.....its too weird to make up, but why didnt anyone else report it?
Nick
Evidently New England was able to coax their GWS back to the ocean. Amazingly enough it was done w/ old time fishing methods, and a few high pressure hoses??????
http://www.capecodchronicle.com/chat100704_1.htm
http://newscenter.mind.net/wed/cf/Uus-whiteshark.RQEI_EO5.html
I found other articles about the shark getting back to the ocean, most were re-hash....
Oddly enough, the only mention of the high pressure water streams was in the first link.....its too weird to make up, but why didnt anyone else report it?
Nick
Sorry for the delay in responce I was on vacation. No real new updates, other than she is still doing well. Yesterday was day 33, and it seems as though she is really packing on some weight. I have talked to a few guests that saw here when we first up her in there and have seen here now and they are saying that she is putting on weight as well. I will try to get a hold of one of the aquarists and find out how much she has grown, if they even know. On a cool side note, we added about 10 Dolphinfish (Durado or Mahi-Mahi) a couple days ago. They are all on the small side about two feet of so.
It is funny when taling to some of the guest, they are disappointed that she is four feet long. Of course I go into my little talk about the birth and all that and how keeping a large one that is already adapted to what it is eating would be next to impossible, they are still disapointed.
Oh God, you are going to try to brave the huge crowd this weekend!?! I will be there. I will be one of the people waering the khaki vests that say Guest Ambassador on the back. If you check our website, we have all sorts of events going on, Peter Benchley will be there (Jaws author), cake if you come early, George Lopez (commedian), live music, all sorts of stuff. It will be interesting to see this weekend with how the weather has been going here.
The previous record was actually back in 1981, early 80's anyway, that was held by Sea World in San Diego. I think the one you are confusing is the one in Austarilia that was in the late 60's that had one feeding on its exhibit, Cod I think it was eating. They let it go after only 10 days. It is too bad that so many movements were made in the 60's, the GWS was not involved.
Dell'Oro
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Wonrib,
A couple of questions re your feeding of the shark. I had the opportunity to go cage diving off South Australia in Feb of this year and noticed a couple of things.
1. We were using both tuna and salmon as baits, and the sharks seemed to find the tuna far more attractive (higher oil content maybe?). Have you tried feeding any tuna, and with what results?
2. The sharks seem to feed and be more active mid afternoon (about 4pm). Early in the day they did not seem anywhere near as interested, wheareas in the afternoon you would usually have several circling the boat, even without bait in the water. Do you find a different feeding response on your morning and afternoon feeds?
And before anyone bothers to ask, it was AWESOME!!!!
Just a teaser:
Thanks for a fascinating thread. I wish you all the best with the research.
For all the naysayers out there, so many of these stunning animals are being killed by the fishing industry, whether by accident or design. I would be far more happy to risk the loss of one specimen in the name of science, than I am to see the huge wastage that goes on by way of bycatch in commercial fisheries. If people are seriously concerned about the conservation of these and other marine animals, there are far better areas to target. Just my 2c (worth about US1.4c at today's rates)
Cheers
Paul
A couple of questions re your feeding of the shark. I had the opportunity to go cage diving off South Australia in Feb of this year and noticed a couple of things.
1. We were using both tuna and salmon as baits, and the sharks seemed to find the tuna far more attractive (higher oil content maybe?). Have you tried feeding any tuna, and with what results?
2. The sharks seem to feed and be more active mid afternoon (about 4pm). Early in the day they did not seem anywhere near as interested, wheareas in the afternoon you would usually have several circling the boat, even without bait in the water. Do you find a different feeding response on your morning and afternoon feeds?
And before anyone bothers to ask, it was AWESOME!!!!
Just a teaser:
Thanks for a fascinating thread. I wish you all the best with the research.
For all the naysayers out there, so many of these stunning animals are being killed by the fishing industry, whether by accident or design. I would be far more happy to risk the loss of one specimen in the name of science, than I am to see the huge wastage that goes on by way of bycatch in commercial fisheries. If people are seriously concerned about the conservation of these and other marine animals, there are far better areas to target. Just my 2c (worth about US1.4c at today's rates)
Cheers
Paul
laugh Yes, the previous record was in the early 80's. We put ours in on Sep 14, so that would make today day 38, I think.
Bamm Bamm The problems with a larger one are a couple fold; first being that a larger one is already eating what it wants. We felt that a younger one would be more accpeting of perpared foods. Second, larger GWS switch from eating fish to marine mamals, bad for the conservation part of things at the aquarium. Third, larger one would be a bit harder to move from the transport to the tank itself.
Dell'Oro We have not offered tuna, mostly becasue we dont want her getting any bright ideas about eating one. They may offer other types of fish down the road, but I doubt that it will be anything that is living in the exhibit.
I would say that she seems more active in the afternoon, but I am not 100% sure on that. I would have to ask one of the aquarists that has been tracking her movements. As for the feeding part, I am not sure, that is a good question. I would assume that being more active in the afternoon she would eat more, or be more likely to eat. But I will have to ask someone directly involved and see if there is some kind of chart (which I am sure there is) that shows any corolation of feedings. Nice pics.
Earlier I said that I would find out if she has grown much, and I got a answer that was kinda vague. Yes, she looks as though she has grown, have we weighed her, no. To actually weigh her we would need to physically get her onto some kind of scale. But one of the ideas to avoid any type of contact and geta reading is with the use of lasers. The idea is to shine two red lazers at her, one at the tip of her nose, and one at the fluke, then take a picture of her. I am guessing that they have a program or something on the computer that can give them an accurate reading from the picture and the lasers. Hopefully they will some concrete infomation soon.
Bamm Bamm The problems with a larger one are a couple fold; first being that a larger one is already eating what it wants. We felt that a younger one would be more accpeting of perpared foods. Second, larger GWS switch from eating fish to marine mamals, bad for the conservation part of things at the aquarium. Third, larger one would be a bit harder to move from the transport to the tank itself.
Dell'Oro We have not offered tuna, mostly becasue we dont want her getting any bright ideas about eating one. They may offer other types of fish down the road, but I doubt that it will be anything that is living in the exhibit.
I would say that she seems more active in the afternoon, but I am not 100% sure on that. I would have to ask one of the aquarists that has been tracking her movements. As for the feeding part, I am not sure, that is a good question. I would assume that being more active in the afternoon she would eat more, or be more likely to eat. But I will have to ask someone directly involved and see if there is some kind of chart (which I am sure there is) that shows any corolation of feedings. Nice pics.
Earlier I said that I would find out if she has grown much, and I got a answer that was kinda vague. Yes, she looks as though she has grown, have we weighed her, no. To actually weigh her we would need to physically get her onto some kind of scale. But one of the ideas to avoid any type of contact and geta reading is with the use of lasers. The idea is to shine two red lazers at her, one at the tip of her nose, and one at the fluke, then take a picture of her. I am guessing that they have a program or something on the computer that can give them an accurate reading from the picture and the lasers. Hopefully they will some concrete infomation soon.
